McCray graduated from Lakewood Ranch HS (Fla.) in 2019. Another prominent Major Leaguer to attend Lakewood Ranch was Lastings Milledge (2006-11)...McCray was committed to Florida State University before being taken by SF in the third round of the 2019 MLB Draft and later signing...Grant's father, Rodney, was the victim of one of baseball's most famous bloopers, when he crashed through the outfield wall while chasing a fly ball at Portland's Civic Stadium on May 27, 1991...ESPN ranked the play as the seventh-favorite sports blooper of all time in 2004. Rodney was honored in 2006 with a "bobblefence" at a Portland Beavers game...Rodney ended up appearing in 67 career Major League games for the White Sox (1990-91) and Mets (1992). When he debuted with the White Sox in 1990, he appeared in 32 games exclusively as a pinch runner or defensive replacement...For his MLB career, Rodney only had 16 plate appearances despite playing in 67 games...The elder McCray appeared in 829 career Minor League games, last playing in Indy ball in 1993...After his playing career, Rodney was a roving outfield and base-running instructor for the Montreal Expos, Kansas City Royals, Cincinnati Reds and Los Angeles Dodgers...Grant has roomed with fellow Giants Trevor McDonald and Landen Roupp the past few seasons. He would do the majority of the cleaning around their apartment while the trio would take turns cooking for each other...When Grant was younger, he'd tag along with his father on his roving assignments, getting to meet Major Leaguers like Deion Sanders, Ken Griffey Jr. and others. He became closest with Dee Strange-Gordon, and the two remain in touch...Is one of four siblings. Has three sisters: L'Oreal, Sydney and Madison...Grant's sister, Sydney McCray, is a junior outfielder for Grand Canyon University's softball team after transferring from Florida Southwestern State, where she was a Second Team NJCAA All-American in 2023.
2024
Selected from Triple-A Sacramento on Aug. 14 and made his MLB debut that night...Logged his first career hit and and his first homer on Aug. 15...Slashed .262/.294/.569 with three doubles, one triple, five homers, nine RBI and three steals in his first 19 MLB games...Was 8-for-59 (.136) with one triple, one RBI and 29 strikeouts in final 17 games...His 43.1% strikeout rate in MLB was highest among qualified players after Aug. 14 (56 Ks in 130 PA)...Hit two home runs on Sept. 7 at SD...Became one of five Giants in history to hit five or more homers through his first 19 career games, joining Jarrett Parker (six homers, 2015), Willie McCovey (seven, 1959), Orlando Cepeda (six, 1958) and Dusty Rhodes (eight, 1952)...Also became the eighth Giants hitter in the SF era (since 1958) to record a multi-HR game prior to his 20th career game with the team...The others are Trevor Brown (April 12, 2016), Jarrett Parker (Sept. 26, 2015), Glenn Adams (June 4, 1975), Gary Matthews (Sept. 16, 1972), Dave Kingman (Aug. 1, 1971), Willie McCovey (Aug. 5, 1959) and Orlando Cepeda (May 4, 1958)...Hit .210 with a .733 OPS in 50 games to begin the season in Double-A...Was promoted to AAA on June 11...Hit .272 with six home runs, 12 doubles, four triples and an .818 OPS in 47 Triple-A games.
2023
His 52 steals led the Northwest League and were second-most in all of High-A...his 52 steals were most among any player in the Giants organization in 2023. Also led the NWL in runs (101) and hits (126)... ranked inside the top-10 in the NWL in batting average (ninth, .255), RBI (sixth, 66), on-base percentage (fifth, .360), slugging percentage (ninth, .417), OPS (fifth, .777), walks (third, 72), triples (T-3rd, six) and doubles (fourth, 26). From July 1 through the end of the season, McCray slashed .280/.388/.449 (.837 OPS) with 16 doubles, six homers, 24 RBI and 22 stolen bases (57 game Logged a .788 OPS with 12 of his 16 homers vs. righties...had a .756 OPS with two homers versus lefties. Played predominantly centerfield for the Emeralds, logging 992 innings there with a .992 fielding percentage...also saw action in right field (72.1 innings).
2022
Named a California League Post-Season All-Star after a breakout campaign at Single-A San Jose...Hit 21 homers, stole 35 bases and batted .291 with a .908 OPS for San Jose in 106 games...Promoted to High-A Eugene for his final 14 games, where he batted .269 with an .810 OPS...Batted .286 with one homer for Eugene in the playoffs as they repeated as NWL Champions.
